Pearl - The British Library, Cotton Nero A. X, art.3, f.42
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Medieval Literature
Bibliographies - Lists of books and other works relating to a specific topic. Useful for finding references and expanding your reading. (Find links on the EFL website > Resources for Papers > Medieval) International Medieval Bibliography - Bibliography of the Middle Ages, 300-1500. Iter Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance - A bibliography of more than 1.3 million citations for secondary source material about the European Middle Ages and Renaissance, 400-1700. Chaucer Bibliography Online - An Electronic Searchable Version of the Bibliographical Update Published Annually in 'Studies in the Age of Chaucer'.
Web Resources (Find links on the EFL website > Resources for Papers > Medieval) Early English Books Online - Digital facsimile images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. Index of Christian Art - Iconographic index of Christian themes in early Christian and Medieval art. The Bible - 20 versions of the English Bible. Includes William Tyndale's New Testament. TEAMS Middle English Texts Series - Searchable database of recently edited student editions of the works of John Gower, Robert Henryson, John Lydgate, Margery Kempe, and The York Corpus Christi Plays etc. Digitized Medieval Manuscripts - Links to over 300 libraries with digitized manuscripts. The collection includes the Ancrene Wisse, the Brut Chronicle, and of the finest copies of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde.
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Parker Library on the Web - The Parker Library is the rare books and manuscripts library of Corpus Christi. Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse - An extensive collection of Middle English electronic texts assembled from works contributed by University of Michigan faculty and from texts provided by the Oxford Text Archive. The Labyrinth - Provides connections to databases, services, texts, and images for Medieval studies. Manuscripts online - Online primary resources relating to written and early printed culture in Britain during the period 1000 to 1500. Middle English Compendium - Middle English Dictionary, bibliography and collection of prose writing.
Key ebooks - (Find links on iDiscover) Windeatt, B. A., Troilus and Criseyde (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995) Cooper, Helen, The English Romance in Time: Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008) Herbert McAvoy, Liz, Authority and the Female Body in the Writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe, Studies in Medieval Mysticism (Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer, 2004) Kaeuper, Richard W., Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999) King, Pamela M., Medieval Literature 1300-1500 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011) Perkins, Nicholas, ed., Medieval Romance and Material Culture (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2015) Steiner, Emily, Reading Piers Plowman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011)
Cambridge Companions - All available as e-books, find them on iDiscover. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Culture The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature, 1100-1500 The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance The Cambridge Companion to Piers Plowman The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Music And more…
Faculty Resources (Find links on the EFL website > Resources for Papers >Medieval ) Piers Plowman Tutorial Website - Teaching aid for improving skills at translating Middle English. Troilus and Criseyde: Translation and Commentary - A web resource to help increase familiarity with Troilus & Criseyde for the Part I medieval exam. English Handwriting 1500-1700: An online course - A resource for the study of original English manuscript sources. Medieval Imaginations - Database of images exploring visual culture of medieval England. Middle English Resource - Language resource for those studying Middle English texts in the original. Scriptorium - A digital archive of manuscript miscellanies and commonplace books from c.1450-1720.
In the EFL: Print primary & secondary texts – E 21 – E 24 - (Library basement) K & L - Art and Music - (Library first floor) Audio recordings & DVDs – (Search iDiscover)